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OVERVIEW In 2023 R2, the Structures Product Line delivers new features and capabilities that allow our users to perform more accurate, efficient, and actionable structural simulation analyses. Software development updates this release have focused on continued exposure of Ansys solvers into the Mechanical interface. For example, the LS-DYNA solver has been exposed in Mechanical-Workbench for applications such as drop-test, enabling users to explore a variety of drop test height and angle variations concurrently. Advancements have also been made to the electronics reliability workflow within Mechanical to perform sub-modeling of local regions on a PCBA using the Sherlock pre- plug-in. Additionally, the Motion solver has been exposed in Mechanical for multi-body dynamics analyses, providing more accurate analysis of the impact of friction, contour and velocity on multiple bodies in a physical system. Furthermore, users can access Mechanical via Python to automate these capabilities and workflows and seamlessly connect with other technologies. And finally, for customers manufacturing and designing gas turbines, exciting advancements have been made to support imported loads for multi-stage cyclic symmetry analyses, including temperature, film coefficient and pressure. RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS Ansys Mechanical • Interface with Mechanical pythonically to automate its capabilities and seamlessly connect with other technologies with PyMechanical. Opensource access to interface with and control Mechanical is available through GitHub. • Perform more accurate and robust turbomachinery simulations leveraging new enhancements including imported load support for multistage cyclic symmetry analyses, a new forced response add- on using standardized capabilities, and completely new advanced nonlinear multi-harmonic solver. • Efficiently explore a variety of drop test height and angle variations, with added support to concurrently solve multiple drop test analyses, leveraging the Ansys LS-DYNA solver. • Simulate surface tension and wall adhesion effects in soldering and thermal interface material applications with the exposure of the incompressible Smooth Particle Galerkin (ISPG) solver. • Notable meshing enhancements include the ability to ensure a high-quality mesh prior to solving, with Mesh Quality Worksheet improvements, poor element location visualization and shortcut keys, and weld improvements that enable the creation of welds near complex geometric features and areas where it is difficult to create weld connections. • Evaluate and optimize the performance of hydrodynamic and journal bearings with a new embedded workflow that combines hydrodynamics and finite element analysis (FEA). This workflow integrates Tribo-X, a thermal elastohydrodynamics (TEHD) simulation software. Structures Product Line 2023 R2 Update